Romans 12:12 – Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Part 1– The Forward View Discouragement has met its match. Romans 12:12 has a devastating affect on discouragement by wielding a weapon I call "The Triple Threat."… Continue reading

If we don't want change, all change is intimidating. George Carlin said he put some money into one of those change machines and nothing happened. Sometimes, I'd be happy to find a change machine that actually produced transformation in any… Continue reading

We are poor and needy. We can never justify despising the broken heart. We are known, helped, and delivered. We are far more beloved than we know. Continue reading

Focus is what we so often miss. as our eyes dart in multiple directions. We cannot seem to stay on theme, on message, or on task. We create alternate realities with alternate facts and individualized interpretations of the indisputable realities all… Continue reading

  We are all from somewhere and …Somewhere along the line our people have been invaded, oppressed, enslaved, and, victimized or …Been invaders, oppressors, slave "owners," and those who victimize … or/andBOTH! AND/OR/AND … looking for a place of opportunity… Continue reading

Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;but let them not turn back to folly.Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,that glory may dwell in our… Continue reading

Our challenge is not to build God a better physical house, but to present all that we do and say as testimony to His power, love, grace, and beauty. Continue reading

Picture the upper room and the somber mood of twelve friends hearing the ominous words from their Master that He will soon die and that they will soon fail Him. “Not I,” protests Peter. “You will,” declares Jesus, “But let… Continue reading

(John 14:2)  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Home! Home, sweet, home! That’s where we are going. That is where we… Continue reading

Proverbs 23:22b – “… despise not thy mother when she is old.” Your Mother When She Is Old We need as many “old mothers” as we can get in the church and in our lives. We need to honor the… Continue reading